In the end, the Bernabéu loot was divided between Real Madrid and Atlético, who equaled Brahim's initial goal with a goal 'in extremis' by Marcos Llorente. A result that has not left the same taste in the mouths of both locker rooms. For Simeone “it was a weak game for both of us” and the point “doesn't taste like anything”, while for Anceloti “the point is good” and “it was a very good game”.
The white coach did not hesitate in the press room: “We came out of this match satisfied and confident. It was a very good match, we played very good football,” Ancelotti said. “We deserved to win, but we have won many games in the last minute,” he acknowledged in the press room.
For the Real Madrid coach, the Madrid team “controlled the entire match”, and had “the bad luck to fail in the last minute”. “We lacked some height, we suffered from set pieces.” But he called for calm: “Calm down, the team is doing very well. We are leaders and we have another opportunity to hit the table next Saturday.”
Ancelotti also referred to the last-minute absence of Vinícius and explained why he opted for Brahim, despite having first thought of Joselú as his replacement in the warm-up: “He tried, he had a contracture, but in the warm-up he wasn't there. comfortable. Joselú or Brahim were the two options, but Brahim allowed us not to change the defensive system that we had proposed. Today we had casualties, but everyone has committed themselves to the maximum,” he highlighted.
What he didn't want to talk about was the refereeing: "I won't comment on it." Something that Simeone did speak about: “They say the disallowed goal is fair because Saúl was in front of the goalkeeper,” they say about the goal disallowed against Savic due to Saúl's offside. For the mattress coach “it was a weak game for both of us.” “The point doesn't mean anything to me,” he acknowledged, although he stated that “it is a deserved draw.”
The Atlético coach highlighted his team's faith in staying in the game until they found the tying goal: “We look for the point until the end. The team could have given up, but they kept looking for the goal and that's why we achieved a draw that for me is deserved."
Of course, Simeone did not hesitate to describe the match as “strange” and regretted that it was not “as vibrant as the previous” derbies that Atlético and Real Madrid have recently played. “The merit of the tie is that we looked for the goal. It's a shame that we couldn't do it sooner, because the game wasn't bad to be able to win,” he lamented.
Marcos Llorente, Atlético's hero, with that goal in the 93rd minute, was half satisfied with the result: "It doesn't taste like a victory because it's only one point, but it's true that given the way the game was, it is a very good point." valuable". “We take a point and they don't add up,” said Llorente, who stated that he was “very happy with the team's work,” after Simeone tweaked the team at half-time so that the team was “better placed and didn't happen what happened at the beginning.” ”. “Now important games are coming,” warned the Atlético player, who this Wednesday hosts Athletic Club in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals.
